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单词 leggy
释义
leggyleg‧gy /ˈleɡi/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a leggy blonde
  • Robert arrived at the party with a leggy brunette.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago.
  • According to my neighbour on the other side, this apartment contained something very unusual in the way of leggy redheads.
  • But Marcos chooses to stay behind the harpsichord and leggy ficus.
  • But they were never bushy, had little foliage and looked leggy.
  • Instead of cheerleaders, King would hire leggy card girls.
  • Nice enough creature, I suppose - leggy, dark hair.
  • The redhead was leggy and had a terrific figure.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwords for describing someone who is tall
· Martin was tall and thin, with curly blond hair.· At the age of fifteen he was already six foot three and the tallest boy in the school.· The photographer asked the taller people to stand at the back of the group.· Who is that tall bloke standing next to Diane?grow tall/taller · Sebastian was now fifteen, and had grown tall and strong.
a man who is lanky is tall and thin, and has very long legs: · We were met by a tall, lanky youth called Yusef.· a lanky sixteen-year-old boy
use this about a young person who is tall and thin with very long legs and arms, and moves in an awkward way: · Janet introduced me to her son, a shy, gangling teenager.· a tall, gangly youth
a woman who is leggy is tall and attractive with long legs: · Robert arrived at the party with a leggy brunette.· a tall, leggy blonde
use this about a man who is very tall, especially when you are surprised at how tall he is: · Bigger even than his father, who was a tall man, James was a giant.a giant of a man: · The biggest of the three brothers was a sad-faced giant of a man.
1a woman or child who is leggy has long legs:  a leggy blonde2a leggy plant has grown too tall very quickly and its stem cannot support its weight very well
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